James Joyce collection, 1900-1959.

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James Joyce collection, 1900-1959.

Covering the entire span of his artistic life, the James Joyce collection is the largest in the world and contains his private library, as described in Thomas Connolly's "The Personal Library of James Joyce: A Descriptive Bibliography" (1955); 22 holograph drafts, over 11,000 typescript pages, and corrected galleys and page proofs for Ulysses (1922); approximately 60 notebooks, transcriptions, typescripts, galleys, page proofs, and the author's copy with corrections of "Finnegans Wake" (1939); documents for "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and Joyce's lecture on Daniel Defoe; the notebook for "Exiles;" hundreds of letters between Sylvia Beach and Joyce; Beach's printing records for the publication of "Ulysses;" John Quinn's letters to Beach and Joyce regarding the trial over "Ulysses" and "The Little Review;" other Joyce and Beach correspondence; Joyce's presentation copies to Beach; portraits and over 150 photographs of Joyce and his family; numerous personal artifacts owned by Joyce, and thousands of his newspaper clippings; and notebooks, sketchbooks, and letters by Joyce's daughter Lucia Joyce. Supplementing the archive is a complete set of first editions, including all issues and states of every book published by Joyce, translations, a large number of his magazine appearances, and virtually all the literary criticism in book form on Joyce. Much but not all of the manuscript material has been described in Peter Spielberg's "James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters at the University of Buffalo: A Catalogue" (1962).

89 boxes (22.25 feet)

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Poetry Manuscripts Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo)

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State University of New York at Buffalo. Poetry Collection

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Joyce, James, 1882-1941

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James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...